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“The Supreme Court on Monday appeared poised to make it easier for President Trump to fire independent government officials despite laws meant to insulate them from political pressure in what…
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Heather Cox Richardson argues that the Trump administration’s vision behind the National Security Strategy is to achieve a “white supremacist country” and, to this end, they reject immigration and call…
President Trump lashed out at Rep. Marjorie Taylor Greene (R-GA) after she appeared on “60 Minutes” to discuss her rift with him, NewsNation reports. Said Trump: “The only reason Marjorie…
“President Trump said in a social media post Monday that he will issue an executive order this week to curb state laws on artificial intelligence, the latest win for a…
“After a year mired in reflection and recrimination over the future of their party, Democratic governors are suddenly showing some swagger,” the New York Times reports. “As they gathered this…
“For six months, Apple distributed an app called ICEBlock that allowed users to alert people when they saw Immigration and Customs Enforcement agents. But after the Trump administration complained that…
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President Trump pardoned sports executive Tim Leiweke – who was convicted by Trump’s own Justice Department – after a round of golf with former Rep. Trey Gowdy (R-SC), who was…
Mother Jones: “Over the last six months, the Justice Department has demanded full, unredacted voter rolls from dozens of states in an effort to create the federal government’s first-ever national…
“Defense Secretary Pete Hegseth ordered the U.S. military on Sept. 2 to kill all 11 people on a suspected drug-smuggling boat in the Caribbean Sea because they were on an…
The New York Times reports that last year, before she became attorney general, Pam Bondi wrote a Supreme Court brief in which she argued: “Military officers are required not to…
“The conservative legal movement has for decades insisted that an originalist understanding of the Constitution — that is, an interpretation that looks to how the document was understood at the…
Erick Erickson: “The elites and the experts deserve a lot of blame for people distrusting them, disregarding them, and discrediting them. But we’ve traded experts trained in a field of…
Recently published: The Last Supper: Art, Faith, Sex, and Controversy in the 1980s by Paul Elie. The Los Angeles Times says it’s one of the best books of the year: “Today’s…
“In Honduras, impatience is growing as Honduran electoral officials have failed to provide an update on the results of the Nov. 30 national elections for nearly 48 hours, with the…
“Anti-Trump former Republicans think Democrats are squandering their chance to flip the House — and they have a $100 million plan to save them,” Politico reports. “On the heels of…
“Affinity Partners, the private equity firm led by Jared Kushner, is part of Paramount’s hostile takeover bid for Warner Bros Discovery,” Axios reports. “Paramount is telling WBD shareholders that it…
“The Trump administration is touting record Black Friday shopping as a sign the president’s tariffs haven’t hurt the economy the way some predicted,” Politico reports. “Economists and businesses say: Just…
“When President Donald Trump imposed a travel ban from several Muslim-majority countries in 2017, Democratic advocates and lawmakers raced to airports across the country to protest. They held news conferences…
Taegan Goddard is the founder of Political Wire, one of the earliest and most influential political web sites. He also runs Political Job Hunt, Electoral Vote Map and the Political Dictionary.
Goddard spent more than a decade as managing director and chief operating officer of a prominent investment firm in New York City. Previously, he was a policy adviser to a U.S. Senator and Governor.
Goddard is also co-author of You Won - Now What? (Scribner, 1998), a political management book hailed by prominent journalists and politicians from both parties. In addition, Goddard's essays on politics and public policy have appeared in dozens of newspapers across the country.
Goddard earned degrees from Vassar College and Harvard University. He lives in New York with his wife and three sons.
Goddard is the owner of Goddard Media LLC.
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